Discovery Stones - Jack and the Beanstalk

Create learning that has a giant impact with Discovery Stones - Jack and the Beanstalk! These spellbinding stones have been designed by Hope Education to bring a traditional tale to life, strengthening pupil’s storytelling skills whilst promoting a love of literacy within your classroom.

This set of Discovery Stones is complete with 16 precious pebbles, each of which is illustrated with a key character or element from the text, such as Jack, the Giant and of course, the magic beans! Children will love using these tactile stones to explore the events of the story whilst embodying the different emotions of each character. This resource is the perfect accompaniment to the teaching of Jack and the Beanstalk throughout EYFS or Key Stage 1, familiarising children with a classic traditional tale whilst encouraging them to retell the story again and again.

What’s in the Box?

• 16 x pebbles depicting story characters and elements (Jack, 2 x Mum, the cow, the old man, the magic beans, the beanstalk, the castle, 2 x the Giant, the Giant’s wife, the golden egg, a golden harp, a bag of gold coins, an axe and a rich Jack and Mum together)
• 2 x helpful information cards, including key vocabulary and a visual story map
• 1 x cylindrical cardboard storage tube

Pre-order now for March delivery!

Reasons to Love

• Supports you in creating a culture of oracy and storytelling within your classroom. The tactile and visual nature of this resource will enable many more pupils to engage with and access the tale.
• These Discovery Stones are a wonderful way to improve writing outcomes across your class. When pupils understand and recall a text, they will more confidently and independently be able to use it as a basis to explore their own story ideas.
• Ethically and sustainably sourced as well as durable and long-lasting. The pebbles can be scattered in a water or sand area and even used outdoors, promoting language development across your classroom.

Learning Outcomes

• Use to enrich teaching on a Jack and the Beanstalk English unit in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2. These Discovery Stones are sure to enhance children’s writing whilst fulfilling the Key Stage 1 National Curriculum objective of reading and retelling traditional tales.
• A fantastic addition to continuous provision across the EYFS or Key Stage 1. These special stones will be right at home in a Jack and the Beanstalk based small world, building pupil’s fine motor skills in the process.
• Use to support individual pupils or groups of children who have additional learning needs in the areas of speech and language or working memory. Discovery Stones can provide pupils with further opportunities to practise verbal retelling and text sequencing.